I can confirm that this "Game of School" is extremely problematic in our education system. Especially coming from a student's perspective, I primarily just showed up, participated, and did the work to get by when I was in middle and high school. If I was truly passionate about one teacher or subject (which was unfortunately rare), then I would put extra effort into studying and my homework. But why would I only do this for particular classes? Sure, students favor certain classes, but I would literally spend hours on assignments for one class and barely ten minutes on others. Why can't we be this enthusiastic about all our classes? It is my goal as a future elementary school teacher to positively introduce all subjects to my students. I will teach them not to play this passive "game". I hope they will not just simply go through the motions and actually learn!